Zhoushan Cultural Tourism Financial Complex Project

Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Professional Schematic Design Project, 10/2019-01/2020

Roles: Concept and Schematic design. Modeling, rendering and documentation w/revit, rhino, enscape, Adobe CC

The Zhoushan archipelago is in itself a geographic symbolization of our world, and even a cosmological evocation.Each island has its own character, as a planet has its strangeness. The island’s poetic aspect arises from traces, memorial itineraries, from a vanished project, traces swallowed by water, lotus trees and a few recent fragments of sheetpiles and concrete iron bars.

This architectural attitude is a consequence of the realization of the passing of time, of times: times passed, times forgotten, present times and their inventions.The present is at once the threshold and the door to the future, surprises, and new, more and more hedonistic and opti-